Mission
The mission of Vote Your Money is to:
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Enable individuals to effect change in the world by making informed choices about how they spend their money;
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Make it beneficial for businesses to make business decisions based on a long-term, holistic outlook;
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Mature the free-market system to the point where businesses work together for social, political, environmental, and economic stability, accountability, and sustainability.
Beliefs
Our mission and goals are predicated on a set of beliefs. We believe that:
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Most people in the world want justice, equity, freedom, and the basic liberties and life necessities to be met for all people throughout the world;
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Most individuals in first-world countries are willing to make small sacrifices and changes in their spending to support greater issues and goals;
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The goals that the majority of people hold dear are ones that will have a positive impact on the world;
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Businesses, by and large, currently focus on short-term profits and their own self-interest;
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Businesses, when properly motivated by a loss of profits can and will influence one another’s business practices.
Therefore, by empowering individuals to make small sacrifices and changes in spending, we believe we can accomplish our mission and that the final result will be a maturation of the free-market system to one that naturally encourages the betterment of all humanity.
Goals
To accomplish our mission, we plan to leverage the complex network of business relationships and the passion of individual consumers for their particular issues, to effect change. We will:
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Provide accurate and up-to-date information about the influence of particular entities (businesses, people, governments, etc.), called targets, on the status of an issue.
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Provide a path to influence those targets, either directly or indirectly via their relationships with businesses.
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Provide that information in an actionable way, such that it is as easy as possible for a consumer to spend in support of their chosen issue.
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Provide support for businesses attempting to respond positively to consumer’s who are voting their money.
